Miriam Bernstein-Cohen
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Miriam Bernstein-Cohen (Russian: Мария Яковлевна Бернштейн-Коган Hebrew: מרים ברנשטיין-כהן), 1895–1991, was an Israeli actress, director, poet and translator.
Miriam Bernstein-Cohen was born in Kishinev, Russian Empire. Her father was the doctor and community activist Jacob Bernstein-Kogan. She grew up in Kharkov. After training as a medical doctor she enrolled in drama school. She studied with Konstantin Stanislavski in Moscow in 1918 before returning to Moldova as an actress, where she worked under the name Maria Alexandrova.
After immigrating to Palestine, Bernstein-Cohen settled in Tel Aviv and joined the country's first professional theater company.[1] In 1925, she founded the first Hebrew-language periodical in Palestine dedicated to theater, Te'atron ve-Omanut.
Awards and recognition[edit]
- In 1975, Bernstein-Cohen was awarded the Israel Prize, for theatre.[2]
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- 1895 births
- 1991 deaths
- Jews from the Russian Empire
- Jews from Mandatory Palestine
- Jews from Ottoman Palestine
- Israeli Jews
- Israeli stage actresses
- Israel Prize women recipients
- Israel Prize in theatre recipients
- Israeli women writers
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire
- National University of Kharkiv alumni
- Moldovan women writers
- Immigrants to Ottoman Palestine
- Kishinev pogrom